Assignments for Friday, November 15

• Complete worksheet on rhetorical fallacies, and come to class ready to discuss it.
• Turn in first argumentation essay at beginning of class.
• Email me an electronic copy of your essay at my Motlow email address.

Email note

I have now begun using my Motlow email account. In the future, if you want to contact me by email, please do so at my Motlow address: mstanley[ at ]mscc.edu.

Assignments for Friday, Nov. 8

• Read PA 137-51
• Know and be able to use these words: admonition, atomistic, coerce, connote, crematorium, latency
• Be familiar with the historical significance of Auschwitz
• Read "In Jedwabne"
• If not completed in class, make a Works Cited page in MLA format with four sources to be used in your argumentation essay
• Bring a completed rough draft of your argumentation essay to class

Evaluating web sources

What do you think about these?

College

http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/w-kent-barnds/is-college-worth-it-the-a_b_4122884.html
http://www.theonion.com/articles/college-unveils-new-media-center-every-month,34400/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348689/congrats-grad-was-it-worth-it-interview
http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/255720/young-alumni-say-college-was-worth-it-jason-fertig

Violent media
http://www.lionlamb.org/media_violence.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/does-media-violence-lead-to-the-real-thing.html?_r=0
http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-blamed-for-rise-in-formulaic-violence,1887/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201309/violence-the-media-and-your-brain
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-j-ferguson/media-violence_b_4018469.html

A few more
http://the7truth7ministries72.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/is-barack-hussein-obama-the-false-prophet-of-rev-13/
http://www.beastobama.com/
http://www.cogwriter.com/barack-obama-prophecy-antichrist.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp

Quiz

1. In the chapter, "Finding and Evaluating Sources" in Practical Argument, what web service and its founder are referred to repeatedly?

2. According to the same chapter, which of the following is not a good criterion for evaluating the quality of a source: accuracy, credibility, objectivity, length, currency, comprehensiveness, authority?

3. According to your readings for today, are employers using social media in hiring selections?

4. Write the new "class motto."

5. Write the old "class motto."